Chivalry Quote by Eve Babitz Download Open image ““...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.”” — Eve Babitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chivalry Men
“I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.” — James Anderson Copy Share Image
“Chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women’s superiority.” — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
“Though I'm a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.” — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner.” — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“Trying to balance chivalry with equality, I always open a door for a Lady...then stick my foot out” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man. — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
“Tell Chizalum that women actually don't need to be championed and revered; they just need to be treated as equal human beings.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“The gallantry was the women's. ... The woman's chivalry in such circumstances is obviously expected.” — Bryn Hammond Copy Share Image
It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises. — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would fall out… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“Everyone knew the way to dance was like black people did and they all danced that way.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most,… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“Jacaranda believed that in the world of airplanes there were only two kinds of luggage—carry-on or lost.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance;… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were… — Helen Andelin Copy Share Image
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“... for a man may cover his blemish, but unbind it he cannot, for where once 'tis applied, thence part will it never.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image